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Finding the Mayflowers 

A Puritan Play for Children 



By 
BLANCHE PROCTOR FISHER 



BOSTON 

WALTER H. BAKER & CO, 

1918 



Finding the Mayflowers 



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CHARACTERS 

Prologue 

Grandfather. 
Dorothy. 

Scene. — Grandfather's study. 
Time.— April, 1918. 

Play 

Mistress Allerton. 

Faith Allerton j 

Hope Allerton i- her daughters. 

Charity Allerton ) 

Dame Hopkins. 

Prudence Brewster, a goody-goody girl. 

Wolomona, a little Indian girl. 

Scene. — The Allertons' home at Plymouth, Mass. 
Time. — April, 162 1. 

Plays Twenty- Five Minutes. 




Copyright, 191 8, by Walter H. Baker & Co. 
©Git] 501 

AUG 13 1918 



Finding the Mayflowers 



PROLOGUE 



SCENE. — Grandfather's study. Curtain rises to music — 
Mendelssohn's " Spring-Song." 

(Grandfather is seated writing at a table covered with 
books and papers. He takes off his spectacles, blows 
on them and wipes them with his handkerchief. 
Dorothy trips in behind him, and puts her hands 
over his eyes. Music stops. ) 

Dorothy. Good-morning, Grandpa ; guess who is 
here. 

Grandfather. Why, bless my soul ! I'm caught 
this time, sure enough. I wonder who it can be. 

Dorothy. You can't guess. Tra-la-la-la-la ! 

Grandfather. That sweet voice sounds like my 
friend, Mr. Song-sparrow. 

Dorothy (pats his cheek with one hand, keeping the 
other hand over his eyes). No, no! Song-sparrows 
would not give your cheek a nice soft pat like this. 

Grandfather. Then it must be Miss Pussy Willow 
with her gray fur mittens. 

Dorothy (dangling a curl over Grandfather's nose). 
Pussy-willows do not have long curls to tickle you. One 
more guess. 

Grandfather. Oh, it must be Mrs. Corn-tassel. 
She has long, silky hair. 

Dorothy. No, no, no ! Tassels do not grow on the 
corn until summer time, and now it is only April. You 
will have to give it up, Grandpa. 

3 



4 FINDING THE MAYFLOWERS 

(She takes her hand from his eyes, and comes for- 
ward. ) 

Grandfather. Why, it is Dorothy! I never would 
have thought of her. How are you this morning, my 
dear ? 

Dorothy. Nicely, thank you, Grandpa. Here are 
some flowers which I brought for you. 

(She takes the flowers from her belt and lays them on 
the table. Grandfather puts on his spectacles, 
holds the flowers close to his eyes and examines 
them. ) 

Grandfather. Oh, yes. A very pretty flower. I 
know the name of it, — let me see. (He opens a big book 
and turns the pages.) Yes, here it is. (Reads from the 
book.) "Heath family — epigea re pens " 

Dorothy (in disgust). Gra-andpa! 

Grandfather (reading). " common name, trail- 
ing arbutus." 

Dorothy. Why, Grandpa, they are Mayflowers. 

Grandfather. And why do you call them May- 
flowers, my dear, when it is only April now? 

Dorothy. Well, that is what the Pilgrims called them, 
long, long ago, when they found them in the woods in 
Plymouth, because they looked so much like the May- 
flowers they used to have at their old homes in England. 
Our teacher read us such an interesting story about it. 
Shall I tell it to you, Grandpa? 

Grandfather. Yes, I should be very glad to hear it. 

Dorothy (drazving up a chair, and sitting dozvn). 
Well, there were three little Puritan girls : — Faith Aller- 
ton, and Hope Allerton, and Charity Allerlon. 

Grandfather. " Faith, Hope and Charity," eh ? And 
what about them ? 

Dorothy. And once they were all sitting together 
in their house at Plymouth. Faith was knitting, Hope 
was spinning, and little Charity was sewing on a sampler. 

And (Grandfather, not interested in the story, is 

looking over his books and papers.) Why, Grandpa, you 
are not listening to me. There, you must take off your 



FINDING THE MAYFLOWERS 5 

glasses, and shut your eyes. (She takes off his spec- 
tacles. ) I am going to begin the story all over again, and 
this time I shall tell it so well that you will see it, just as 
it really happened. 

(Curtain closes.) 



(Music: "America." Curtain rises again on interior 
of the Allertons' home. Window at back of the 
stage, c. ; fireplace at r. of window; table at r. of 
fireplace; spinning-wheel in front of window, a little 
to the l. Hope sits by wheel, spinning, Faith sits at 
l. of Hope, knitting, Charity at r. of Hope, sewing. 
Vacant chair at r. of Charity.) 

Faith. How bright the sunshine is to-day. 
Hope. And the air is so soft and warm. I do wish 
that Mother would let us go out to play. 
Charity. Perhaps she will, if we ask her. 
All Three. Mother! Mother! Mother! 

(Mistress Allerton enters from the r. The daugh- 
ters rise and curtsey.) 

Mistress Allerton. Why, my children, what means 
this unseemly clamor? 

Hope. Mother, can we go out on the beach for a little 
while ? 

Mistress Allerton. And leave your work? Why, 
most certainly not. You all have a great deal to do yet 
before you finish the tasks which I set for you. 

Faith. But I am so tired of knitting. 

Hope. And I hate spinning. 

Mistress Allerton. Then you will have to learn to 
like it. Here in this new world there is no time for any 
one to be idle. Over in dear old England it was different. 
There, there were shops and servants, and one could buy 
their cloth by the yard and hire their garments made. 
But in this wild country every bit of work must be done 
by our own hands, and children have to do their part as 
well as older people. Even little Charity must sew on 
her sampler and practice all the fine stitches so that some 



6 FINDING THE MAYFLOWERS 

day she will become a skillful needle-woman, and be 
able to make nice warm shirts for Father. 

( Takes sampler from Charity, examines it, and gives 
it back, patting her on the head. Then she takes a 
bowl from the table and covers it with a napkin.) 

Faith. Are you going 1 out, Mother? 

Mistress Allerton. Only over to see Mistress Wins- 
low to carry her this bowl of gruel. When I come back 
I expect to find you all as busy as bees, and then how 
proud of you I shall be. [Exit, l. of stage. 

Children. Yes, Mother. 

(They each drop a curtsey as Mistress Allerton 
goes out.) 

Hope. Oh, bother! We never can have any fun. I 
wish I were a boy. 

Faith. A boy? 

Hope. Yes. Then I could take Father's gun and go 
off in a sailboat and shoot wild ducks. 

Charity. Oh, I would rather be a rabbit and run in 
the woods. 

Faith. Well, I care nothing about being a rabbit or 
a boy either. I am quite satisfied to be a girl. But 
sometimes I wish I were not a Puritan girl. I would love 
to wear bright colored dresses and dance around the 
May-pole, the way that we used to see some people do 
in England. 

Hope. Dance around the May-pole! Why, Faith 
Allerton, you wicked, wicked creature ! 

(Knock at the door, l. Enter Dame Hopkins, limp- 
ing with a cane.) 

Dame Hopkins. Good-morrow, young maidens. 

(Children rise and curtsey.) 
Hope. ) ^ i 
Charity, f Good-morrow. 

Faith. Good-morrow, Dame Hopkins. Mother is 
not at home. She has gone to inquire how Mistress 



FINDING THE MAYFLOWERS J 

Winslow is recovering from the fever, and to carry her 
a bowl of gruel. Will you sit down and wait? 

Dame Hopkins. Nay, nay. I too am on my way to 
Mistress Winslow's, and I will join your mother there. 
But yes, I will sit and rest me for a minute. My old 
limbs are not so active as they used to be, and the walk 
from my cottage here made me somewhat weary. (Sits 
down and gives a sigh of weariness.) But what was this 
I overheard as I came to the door? Some one accusing 
Faith of some monstrous wicked thing? 

Hope. Why, yes, Mistress Hopkins. She was saying 
she would like to dance around a May-pole. 

Dame Hopkins {holding up her hands in horror). 
Alas ! Alas ! Girl, may your soul be turned from such 
evil desires. 

Faith. Why, surely there can be no great harm in it. 

Dame Hopkins. Nay, nay. It is a heathen practice. 
There will not be any May-poles in Plymouth Colony. 

Faith. Oh, but Dame Hopkins, did you never dance 
and have good times when you were a girl ? 

Dame Hopkins. Oh, I will not tell ye all the things 
I did when / was a girl. 

CH^Tv.foMotellu, 

Hope. What did you do on May-day ? 

Dame Hopkins. Well, we had a very praiseworthy 
custom, which you might imitate here in Plymouth. We 
used to go into the woods and gather the spring flowers, 
and fill our baskets with them to carry to the old people 
and the sick. 

Charity. But there are no flowers here. 

Hope. Mother says that this is a barren, desolate 
country, and she does not believe that flowers ever grow 
here. 

Faith. But Father says that it is only because the 
spring comes so much later in America than it does in 
England. He says that there will be flowers here, but 
that it will be many weeks yet before the first ones appear. 

Dame Hopkins (tapping on the floor with her cane). 
Tut, tut! Mistress Faith. Your father is a very wise 
man, a very wise man. But I have lived in the world a 



8 FINDING THE MAYFLOWERS 

few more years than he has, and I know a few things 
which he does not know, and / say that the first flowers 
are here now. 

Children {jumping up). Now? Oh, where did you 
see them? 

Dame Hopkins. Well, I didn't see them 

Children (falling back into their chairs). Oh! 

Dame Hopkins. But I could smell them. This after- 
noon as I was coming through the forest path I noticed a 
fragrant odor that reminded me of the spring flowers 
that grow on the hedges in England. I searched for a 
while in the underbrush, but my old eyes are not what 
they used to be, and I could not see what I was after. 
But I knozv that buried somewhere among the dead leaves 
there are fair young blossoms, and I will give this six- 
pence to the maiden who first finds them and puts them 
in my hands. 

(Rises and hunts in her bag for the sixpence.) 

Children (clapping their hands). Oh, a sixpence! 
A sixpence ! 

Cliarity. What shall we do with it? 

Hope. Send it to England when the ship sails, to buy 
something. 

Charity. We will buy taffy. 

Faith. No, we will buy something for Mother. 

Dame Hopkins. Not so fast! Not so fast, young 
damsels. You must earn your prize before you spend 
it. (Going out as she speaks.) Remember! This six- 
pence for the first one who puts the flowers in my hand. 

[Exit. 

Hope. Let us hurry into the forest before any one 
else gets there. 

Faith. But Mother said that we must not go out. 

Hope. Oh, that was when I asked her if we could go 
out on the beach. She did not say that we could not go 
into the woods. 

Faith. I think she meant that we could not go out 
at all until she came back. 

Hope. Well, I shall go anyway. You can stay here 
if you want to. Come on, Charity. 

[Exeunt Hope and Charity, l. 



FINDING THE MAYFLOWERS 9 

Faith (stands looking after them). It was very 
wrong of them to go, when Mother said that we had to 
stay in the house. Father will be angry with them, too, 
when he finds that they have been so disobedient. 
(Sighs.) Well, I suppose that I will have to go on with 
this knitting. (Sits down in the center of the stage and 
takes up knitting.) Who would have dreamed that there 
were flowers blooming in the woods now. (Knock at 
the door, l. ) Come in! 

Enter Prudence Brewster, l., zvith her hands folded 

primly. 

Prudence (curtseys sedately). Good-morrow, Cousin 
Faith. 

Faith (jumping up). Why, Prudence Brewster, I 
am glad to see you. Pray be seated. 

Prudence. No, I did not come to stay. Dame Hop- 
kins has just been at our house, and she says that she is 
sure that there are flowers growing under the leaves by 
the forest path, and she will give a sixpence to the one 
who first picks some for her. So I have come to get you 
to go out with me. 

Faith. Yes, I know. Dame Hopkins was here only 
a few minutes ago, and Hope and Charity have already 
run off to the woods to hunt for the flowers, — although 
Mother has forbidden us all to go away from the house 
this afternoon. 

Prudence. Oh, what wicked girls, to disobey your 
mother. / would not think of doing anything my parents 
had told me not to do. But it is all right for me to go 
into the woods, for my mother said that I might go. 

Faith (sitting down) . Well, I am sorry that I cannot 
go with you. 

Prudence. Yes, I am sorry, too, for I never like to 
go into the forest alone, for fear of the Indians. 

Faith. Why, the Indians will not harm you. They 
have been very kind to us. Chief Massasoit has given 
my father many presents of skins and deer-meat, and last 
week he sent him some Indian corn and promised to show 
us how to plant it. 

Prudence. Yes, I know that some of the Indians have 



10 FINDING THE MAYFLOWERS 

been friendly, but my father says that they are beginning 
now to fear that the white men will get their land away 
from them, and he thinks there will be trouble with them 
some time. That is why I did not want to go into the 
forest alone. But I suppose I must risk it, for I cannot 
give up my chance of earning that sixpence. (Moving 
nearer Faith.) Did Dame Hopkins show it to you? 
It is a bright, shiny sixpence. 

Faith (knitting busily, without looking up). Yes, I 
saw it. 

Prudence. Wouldn't you like to have it? / would. 

Faith (with dignity). The Bible says "The love of 
money is the root of all evil." 

Prudence. Yes, but I do not want the money for 
myself. I shall send it to England when the ship sails, 
to buy a present for my father. 

Faith (forgetting to be dignified). No, I shall send 
it to buy something for my mother. 

Prudence. But you cannot send it unless you earn 
it, and you cannot earn it because your mother has not 
given you permission to go into the woods to hunt for the 
flowers. 

Faith. Oh — no 

Prudence. - You see, it is different with me, for my 
mother told me that / might go. 

Faith (crossly). Yes, you said that once before. 

Prudence. You seem to be getting cross, Cousin 
Faith, so I think that I will not stay with you any longer. 
Good-bye. [Exit, l. 

Faith (haughtily). Good-bye, Cousin Prudence. 
(Looking after her.) Oh, I wish I had gone with her. 
I cannot bear it to think that all the children are out in 
the woods picking flowers this beautiful afternoon and I 
have to stay at home and knit. And some one will win 
that sixpence. Oh, Pruclence! (Rushes to the door.) 
Prudence! Wait a minute. 

(Prudence comes running in l.) 

Prudence. Why, what is the matter, Cousin Faith? 

Faith (excitedly). Oh, Prudence, I think that I had 

better go with you. You see, you are afraid of the 



FINDING THE MAYFLOWERS II 

Indians, and you ought not to go into the woods alone. 
And I am not one bit afraid of Indians, and I ought to go 
with you to protect you. 

Prudence. But your mother said 

Faith. Yes, but she had not thought about the In- 
dians then. If she were here now, I am sure that she 
would say that I ought to go into the forest to protect 
you, — and Hope and Charity, while you are all picking 
the flowers. You know you are afraid of Indians, and 
I am not. 

Prudence (slowly). Yes, I am afraid of the Indians. 
But I am more afraid of what my conscience would say 
to me if I were to lead you into temptation. If your 
mother told you to stay at home, I think it is your duty 
to stay. (Moving backward through the door.) Of 
course, what she said does not concern me, for my 
mother told me that / might go. [Exit. 

Faith (stamping her foot angrily). Well, go then! — 
The idea of Prudence Brewster preaching at me like that. 
What right has she to preach? (In a mocking tone.) 
" Her conscience," and " My duty." " Did not wish to 
lead me into temptation." " Her mother told her that she 
might go." (Takes out her handkerchief, and wipes her 
eyes.) Oh, I hate these goody-goody girls. I just hate 
them. (Throws handkerchief angrily across the room. 
Slow music begins. Wolomona opens the window at 
back of stage, looks in cautiously, then bashfully draws 
back.) What was that noise? (Looks toward the win- 
dow; Wolomona opens door l. and peeps in, then dodges 
back. Faith looks toward the door.) I am sure that 
I heard something. (Music faster. Faith tiptoes about 
the room, anxiously.) There is some one outside. 
What if it should be Indians? Oh, dear, what would I 
do? (The door opens. Faith, seeing Wolomona 
standing in the doorzvay, screams and rushes wildly 
around the room. Music very fast.) Oh, the Indians 
are here. I am so afraid!. Oh !— Oh ! (Wolomona 
enters slowly and bashfully. Music stops.) Why !— it 
is only a little Indian girl. Isn't she sweet? I wonder if 
she speaks English. 

Wolomona (pointing toward Faith) . Pretty! 



12 FINDING THE MAYFLOWERS 

Faith. "Pretty?" — I? (Shaking her head.) Oh, 
no. You are the one who is pretty. 

Wolomona (pointing at Faith). Good. 

Faith. "Good?" No, I am not good. I have just 
been as cross and horrid as I could be. . 

Wolomona (holding out her arms toward Faith). 
Love. 

Faith. " Love ? " Why, how many English words 
she knows. And they seem to be such nice words, too. 

Wolomona (holding out a basket toward Faith). 
Wolomona give. 

Faith. For me? (Takes the basket, dropping a 
curtsey.) Oh, they are flowers. How very fragrant. 
They must be the flowers that Dame Hopkins wanted us 
to find. Did you get them in the forest? (Points. 
Wolomona nods her head, points in the same direction, 
then waves her hand toward the ground.) Growing low 
on the ground ? Under the leaves ? Oh, how they make 
me think of the Mayflowers that bloom on the hedges in 
England. (Lifts flowers from the basket. Enter Mis- 
tress Allerton and Dame Hopkins, l. Faith rushes 
to them.) Mistress Hopkins! Mistress Hopkins, here 
are your flowers. The little Indian girl brought them 
to me. 

Mistress Allerton. Well, well! Dame Hopkins 
told me that she thought there were flowers growing in 
the forest, but I could not believe we should see them 
so soon. (They stand looking at the flowers.) Why, 
where are your sisters, Faith? 

Faith. They have gone off to the woods, Mother. 

Mistress Allerton. When I told them they were 
not to leave the house while I was gone? How could 
they be so disobedient? 

Dame Hopkins. Do not be angry with them, Neigh- 
bor Allerton. I did not know that the children had been 
forbidden to go out, or I would not have tempted them by 
offering a prize for the flowers. 

Mistress Allerton. You need not excuse them, 
Mistress Hopkins. Hope and Charity are both old 
enough to bear the blame for their own wrong-doing. I 
shall go out and bring them in at once. ' [Exit, L.. 



FINDING THE MAYFLOWERS 13 

Damp. Hopkins. Here is your sixpence, Faith. I 
know that you will spend it wisely. 

Faith. Oh, you must give it to this little Indian girl. 
It was she who found the flowers. 

Dame Hopkins. A sixpence would not mean any- 
thing to her. See, I will give her these bright colored 
beads. {Takes beads from her bag and gives them to 
Wolomona, who Jwlds them up admiringly , and winds 
them around her wrist.) But the money shall be yours, 
Faith, according to my promise, for you were the girl 
who put the flowers in my hand. 

Faitpi {dropping a curtsey, as she takes the money). 
I thank you. 

Enter Mistress Allerton, \^.,leading Hope and Charity, 
Prudence following. Cpiarity is crying, with her 
apron over her eyes. Hope breaks azvay from Mis- 
tress Allerton and runs forward, l. 

Hope. Oh, where did those flowers come from ? We 
hunted everywhere in the woods, and we could not find 
a single one. 

Mistress Allerton {drawing Hope back). You see 
what comes of being such naughty children. Your sister 
remained at home as I told her to, and through the kind- 
ness of this little Indian girl it was she, and not you, who 
could give the beautiful flowers to Dame Hopkins. Now 
I shall make you each stand in a corner, to punish you for 
going into the woods without my permission. 

{Places them each in a comer, back to the room.) 

Prudence. / have not been disobedient. My mother 
told me that / might go. 

Faith. Well, my mother told me that / might stay 
at home, and I think that home is the best place, after all. 



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l"Ill/~vllrllillLit« Costumes, modern; scenery, three interiors. 
Plays two and a half hours. 

THE NOTORIOUS MRS. EBBSMITH EtT'SffiK 

males, five females. Costumes, modern; scenery, all interiors. 
Plays a full evening. 

THF PROFIir'ATF Play in Four Acts. Seven males, five 

* n *^ * IVvr HUA 1 £i females. Scenery, three interiors, rather 
elaborate ; costumes, modern. A Plays a full evening. 

THF QPHnni MIQTPF<JQ Farce in Three Acts. Nine males, 
1 nil OV^nWULilTllJl iXEiOO seven females. Costumes, mod- 
ern; scenery, three interiors. Plays a full evening. 

THE SECOND MRS. TANQUERAY gg, 1 " *SS Xi 

females. Costumes, modern; scenery, three interiors. Plays a 
full evening. 

^WFFT T AVFNHFR Comedy in Three Acts. Seven males, 
iJ Tf EiL 1 LitX V LjIJULjIS. f our females. Scene, a single interior, 
costumes, modern. Plavs a full evening. 

THF THTTNnFRRniT Comedy in Four Acts. Ten males, 
1 nL inuil UtJtXUKILi 1 nine females. Scenery, three interi- 
ors; costumes, modern. Plays a full evening. 

THF TIMF^S Comedy in Four Acts. Six males, seven females. 

* *1Ei 1 UVlEikj Scene, a single interior ; costumes, modern. Plays 
a full evening. 

THF WFAKTR <HFY Comedy in Three Acts. Eight males, 

1 IlL TT £i/\IVCiIV OLA eight females. Costumes, modern; 
scenery, two interiors. Plays a full evening. 

A WIFE WITHOUT A SMILE Five^males, four females! 
Costumes, modern ; scene, a single interior. Plays a full evening. 



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A^ YftU I IFF IT Comedy in Fire Acts. Thirteen males, four 

MD IVU MAG II females. Costumes, picturesque ; scenery, Ta- 
iled, Plays a full evening. 

r 1 Mil I E Drama in Fire Acts. Nine males, five females. Oos- 
k/ABMlLiLtL tumes, modern ; scenery, varied. Plays a full evening. 

INfiOMAR P^y in Five Acts. Thirteen males, three females. 
UlUl/ffl At\ Scenery varied ; costumes, Greek. Plays a full evening. 

MADY STUART Tragedy in Five Acts. Thirteen males, four fe- 
01AIV1 i9ilAAi males, and supernumeraries. Costumes, of the 
period ; scenery, varied and elaborate. Plays a full evening. 

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE S3E$&JE£2: gSSSs; 

picturesque ; scenery varied. Plays a full evening. 

DIPHFI fPri P la Y in Fiv « Acts. Fifteen males, two females. Scen- 
1UVHLULU ery elaborate ; costumes of the period. Plays a full 
evening. 

THF RIVAI ^ Comedy in Five Acts. Nine males, five females. 
lliit Mill ALO Scenery varied; costumes of the period. Plays a 
fall evening. 

SHE STOOPS TO CONQDER S3SW ffiS^fc-S^E 

fled ; costumes of the period. Plays a full evening. 

TWELFTH NlfiHT; OR, WHAT TOD WILL Ssr&SJE: 

three females. Costumes, picturesque ; scenery, varied. Plays a 
full evening. 



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